· Private foundation
Robert O and Annamae Orr Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $95,000 |
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | $60,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House of Akron | $50,000 |
| Akron Art Museum | $50,000 |
| Grace House | $50,000 |
| Embracing Futures | $42,000 |
| Good Samaritan Hunger Center | $35,000 |
| OPEN M | $20,000 |
| Keep Akron Beautiful | $20,000 |
| Littlest Heroes | $15,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Summit County | $15,000 |
| Ben Curtis Family Foundation | $12,500 |
| Caring for Kids | $10,050 |
| Mobile MealsFamily and Community Services | $10,000 |
| Char-ity Inc | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK6× · 2019–2024 · $345k · revenue +18%
- RORMH OF AKRONINC8× · 2017–2024 · $305k · revenue +37%
- EFEMBRACING FUTURES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- APAkron Public Schoolsone grant, 2020 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
- BCBeacon Charitable Pharmacy Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +59%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To help people discover a lifestyle of meaning joy and fulfillment through treatment and training. emerge ministries inc. is devoted to serving our clients. this service encompasses a biblically based mental health center with…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
Provide services throughout the ohio health services in the following areas education, tutoring, job, mental health and addiction services. organization has national accreditation to provide mental health services.
The health resource center of cincinnati, inc. is a nurse managed clinic that provides affordable health care for low-income, indigent, and homeless adults and transitional youth with serious and chronic mental, emotional, behavioral,…
To promote mental health research in medical developments
Grace house akron provides a caring environment for hospice enrolled individuals who are without a caregiver, an able caregiver or cannot afford a private caregiver.
The organization provides a comprehensive range of family focused services for lorain county, ohio victims of domestic violence. we endeavor to be a part of collaborative community
The open shelter provides, directly or by referral emergency shelter and assistance for homeless and marginally housed persons in central ohio, especially the most vulnerable among them; and to provide directly or by referral, coordinated,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Support Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Akron Art Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds RMH OF AKRONINC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLEST HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE OAK CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VICTORY GALLOP INC ↗
- Who funds Beacon Charitable Pharmacy Inc ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Lehner Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · The Rc Musson and Katharine Musson Charitable Foundation · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Robert O and Annamae Orr Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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